Title
Big biomedical data as the key resource for discovery science.
Abstract
Modern biomedical data collection is generating exponentially more data in a multitude of formats. This flood of complex data poses significant opportunities to discover and understand the critical interplay among such diverse domains as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics, including imaging, biometrics, and clinical data. The Big Data for Discovery Science Center is taking an-ome to home" approach to discover linkages between these disparate data sources by mining existing databases of proteomic and genomic data, brain images, and clinical assessments. In support of this work, the authors developed new technological capabilities that make it easy for researchers to manage, aggregate, manipulate, integrate, and model large amounts of distributed data. Guided by biological domain expertise, the Center's computational resources and software will reveal relationships and patterns, aiding researchers in identifying biomarkers for the most confounding conditions and diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1093/jamia/ocv077
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
big,biomedical,data,resource,discovery,science,neuroscience (ja),big data,analytics,BD2K,discovery science,Parkinson's disease,Alzheimer's disease (ID)
Data science,Data mining,Data collection,Phenomics,Computer science,Complex data type,Discovery science,Disparate system,Datasets as Topic,Analytics,Big data
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
6
1067-5027
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.55
13
Authors
14
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arthur W. Toga13128261.46
Foster Ian2229382663.24
Carl Kesselman3128601648.67
Ravi Madduri418213.37
Kyle Chard551556.70
Deutsch Eric W610210.94
Nathan D. Price718218.12
Gustavo Glusman87710.43
Benjamin D. Heavner9393.28
Ivo D. Dinov1058158.19
Joseph Ames11462.94
John D Van Horn1231628.50
r w kramer1370.55
Leroy Hood1416545.56